Deadly Pathogens
Rob discusses the potential dangers of virologists creating deadly pathogens for research purposes and the risk of the genome being hacked and leaked to the public. He points out that even though the group of people who have access to this information is containable, the risk of it being leaked is still high. The examples of the 1918 flu virus and smallpox genome being posted online are given as evidence of this risk.In this clip
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510: Rob Reid | Why the Future is a Good Kind of Scary
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